Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
SRI AUROBINDOOurselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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